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Scripture: Acts 25:13-21John 21:15-19 Reflection: Recently, I spoke with a man who has lived his brief life in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Louisville. Murders, family and gang violence, drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, prostitution, and homelessness can…
Scripture: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11John 17:20-26 Reflection: Every February, when the season of Lent begins, the word “Repent” rings in our ears. Many of us are signed with ashes on that first day, and the words, “Repent, and believe in the…
Today’s Scriptures invite us to ponder: What thoughts and feelings are included as we say “good-bye”?
Scripture: Acts 20:17-27John 17:1-11a Reflection: In Jesus’s prayers and discourses in John’s gospel, one can hear the early Christian community blending tradition, lived experience, and theologising together into the one faith-filled act of communal discernment and writing. They express their…
Scripture: Acts 19:1-8John 16:29-33 Reflection: It was a chilly spring evening in 1958, and I processed into the church with my classmates to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. This was quite different from my First Communion two years earlier: this…
Scripture: Acts 1:1-11Ephesians 1:17-23Luke 24:46-53 Reflection: The scene for today’s Gospel is the town of Bethany where Jesus gives his final words to the disciples—a reminder of the saving power of His death and resurrection and the promise of the…
Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Scripture: Zephaniah 3:14-18a, or Romans 12:9-16Luke 1:39-56 Reflection: Happy Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary! In today’s passage from the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:39-56), Mary, after hearing…
Scripture: Acts 18:9-18John 16:20-23 Reflection: Farewells are rarely joyful. At best, they are bitter-sweet. Bitter because departure pains the heart. Sweet because only through the departure, a kind of letting go, actually, is it possible that something new will emerge. …
Scripture: Acts 1:1-11Ephesians 1:17-23Luke 24:46-53 Reflection: They did him homage and then returned to Jerusalem with great joy. -Luke 24:53 Today is unique when it comes to the readings for the liturgy. There are three choices depending on which diocese…
Scripture: Acts 17:15, 22-18:1John 16:12-15 Reflection: I will ask the Father and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always. Thanks be to God for sending us all an Advocate, the Holy Spirit! I don’t know about…